Director General of the European Commission’s DG Reform Mario Nava held a meeting with Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) Colin Stewart with whom he discussed the Cyprus issue.
Nava wrote on his account on the platform ‘X’ that during the meeting “we focused on how to support Ms Maria Angela Holguin, the UNSG Personal Envoy, on advancing the Cyprus settlement process”.
The EU official also wrote that he held a meeting with Deputy Minister to the President Irene Piki with whom he held a “very good discussion on Cyprus’ reform priorities across all policy areas and the soon-to-start TSI2024 projects”.
Piki thanked Nava on her ‘X’ account for the support to Cyprus reforms noting that ‘the sky is the limit’.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded and occupied its northern third. Repeated rounds of UN-led peace talks have so far failed to yield results. The latest round of negotiations, in July 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana
ended inconclusively. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres appointed María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar of Columbia as his personal envoy for Cyprus, to assume a Good Offices role on his behalf and search for common ground on the way forward in the Cyprus issue.
Source: Cyprus News Agency